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F. B. HUNT.

ROLLER SKATE.

' Patented Aug. l1, 1885.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANKLIN B.

MENDEN'HALL, AGENT, or sAMn PLAGE.A

ROLLER-SKATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 324,325, dated .August 11, 1885.

Applcatii 1i filed February G, 1&5.. (No model.)

To all whom t 17mg/ concern.:

Beit known that I, FRANKLIN B. HUNT, of

Richmond, in the county of Wayne and State of Indiana, have invented certain I1nprovements in Roller-Skates, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a new method of operating or adjusting the tension, as hereinafterfully described and set forth in the specication and claims.

Figure lis a side elevation. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal vertical section. Fig. 3 is an end elevation. Fig. 4 is aperspective of the bracket. adjustable slide for the adjustment of the tension.

A is the foot-board, 7), the bracket attached thereto. `g is thehanger, and Hthe axle. Fig. 5 represents a slotted and corrugated adjustable slide, provided with a set-screw, f, at the opposite end Vfrom the corrugations, for the more complete and double adjustment of the tension. The rubber cushion r, Fig. l, is omitted in the section', Fig. 2, in order to exhibit the relation of the bracket and hanger to each other in conjunction with the corrugated slide d. The bracket is provided with aV,a. (Seen in the section Fig. 2.) rIhis V falls into the corrugations u, Fig. 5.

The operation is as follows: The pivot c of the hanger is placed in the bracket as seen in Figs. l and 2. The slide d is then placed on the pivote of the hanger and pressed tightly upon the rubber 1', and the screw c brings the Fig. 5 is a perspective of a corrugatedv that may be required, thus giving a double adjustment of the tension by means of the cor- ,rugations and V a at one end of the slide and the set-screw fat the other end. The adjustable slide plays between flanges b on the bracket, as seen in Fig. 4.

Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combinationwith the bracket b and hanger g, the slotted and corrugated slide d, substantially as set forth.

2. The bracket b, provided with the ilanges b and V a, in combination with the corrugated slide d, for the purpose specified.

3. The slide d, provided with the corrugations a and set-screw f, in combination with the bracket and hanger, substantially as set forth.

4. The rubber cushionr, interposed between the hanger and bracket, in combination with the slide d, provided with corrugations at oneend and a set-screw at the other, substantially as set forth.

FRANKLIN B. HUNT.

Vitnesses:

GHARLns L. SHUTZ, ALDIsoN H. STUDY. 

